Blogs in January 2026

The Oracle’s Daughter 6th January 2026

On a cool autumn night in 1999, twenty-six-year-old Sarah Green crept out of her house and ran for her life. She was escaping not just the Aggressive Christianity Missions Training Corps, a paramilitary religious cult operating out of the...

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A House in Brittany 8th October 2025

A fascinating, and enlightening, account of a franco-phone British resident in the real France, outside the ex-pat bubble. Unlike many British seeking their dream home in France, the writer left the UK as a result of the precarity of...

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My Past is a Foreign Country 29th September 2025

‘Touching on often taboo subjects . . . Talkhani’s story of grit is a portrait of a young woman who refused to let others define her.’ ELLE 28-year-old Zeba Talkhani charts her experiences growing up in Saudi Arabia amid...

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Rebel: My Escape from Saudi Arabia to Freedom 29th September 2025

A gripping true story of bravery and sacrifice by a young woman whose escape from Saudi Arabia captivated the world. In early 2019, after more than a year of careful planning, Rahaf Mohammed boarded a plane and finally escaped...

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The Marchesa 12th September 2025

From the acclaimed author of The Birth of Venus and In the Company of the Courtesancomes a vibrant exploration of the Italian Renaissance through the character of Isabella d’Este, the first female art collector and patron of her time....

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